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Webster 1913 Edition

Balaam

Ba′laam

,
Noun.
A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; – an allusion to the miracle of Balaam’s ass speaking.
Numb. xxii. 30.
[Cant]
Balaam basket or box
(Print.)
,
the receptacle for rejected articles.
Blackw. Mag.

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